A group of white-coated young ladies posed stock-still with human and animal skeletons to do their version of the latest internet craze.

The video of their escapade, filmed in the zoology lab at the university, has appeared on YouTube and has been watched more than 600 times in the past week.

The Mannequin Challenge has been taken up around the world with show business celebrities and sports stars among those to film themselves as if frozen.

In the run-up to the US election Hillary Clinton did it with her husband Bill and Jon Bon Jovi, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic did it with other tennis stars, and Manchester United stars Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard have done it too.

Cambridgeshire police officers have also had a go at the fad, arresting a pretend burglar.